Families of passengers on missing Flight 370 are angry at the amount of time it's taken for the Malaysian government to release raw data for independent review, and they still believe the search may be in the wrong place.

After more than two months, data from communications between Inmarsat satellites and the missing flight was made public on Tuesday.

Sarah Bajc, whose partner, Philip Wood, was on the plane, spoke on "New Day" Tuesday and voiced her frustration.

"When we first asked for this data ... it was meant to be helpful," she said. "We didn’t expect it to turn into a circus of back and forth."

Bajc acknowledged that families want this data because they are skeptical about the current search area, especially since no wreckage or debris has been found in more than 20 missions.

She said the ocean search for the plane should stop until officials have more certainty of the correct area.

"As much as I want to find that plane, I don’t believe we should be wasting the resources of Australia and the other countries that are involved hunting someplace that we have no idea if it’s correct."

Bajc wants an independent third-party to review all the information that Malaysia has and believes that information will change the location of the search.

"Whether that’s 100 kilometers shift in one direction or it’s completely the opposite arc – I have no idea," she said.

The current phase of the underwater search will officially wrap up on Wednesday and may not resume until "August at the very earliest," according to Martin Dolan, Australia's top transport safety official.

Officials plan to move forward by mapping the ocean floor and bringing in more specialized equipment to the search zone, which could take up to a year and will be led by a single private contractor.

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